Visa Smashes Expectations: $10.72B Q4 Revenue Surges 14% Year-Over-Year

Payment giant flexes financial muscle while traditional banks scramble

The Numbers Don't Lie

Visa just delivered a masterclass in financial performance—racking up $10.72 billion in quarterly revenue while leaving analyst predictions in the dust. That 14% year-over-year growth isn't just impressive—it's borderline arrogant in today's economic climate.

Digital Payments Domination

While legacy institutions cling to outdated models, Visa's accelerating adoption of crypto integrations and blockchain partnerships demonstrates where the real innovation happens. Traditional finance might still be figuring out digital wallets, but Visa's already building the infrastructure for tomorrow's economy.

Wall Street's 'Surprise'

Analysts acting shocked by these results should probably check their spreadsheets—or maybe just admit they underestimated how quickly digital payment adoption would accelerate. Another quarter, another reminder that the future of finance isn't coming—it's already here, and Visa's helping build it.

Visa pushes stablecoin adoption across global network

Visa’s quarterly earnings call wasn’t just about numbers though, as CEO Ryan McInerney made it clear they’re going deeper into stablecoins.

“We are adding support for four stablecoins, running on four unique blockchains, representing two currencies, that we can accept and convert to over 25 traditional fiat currencies,” Ryan said Tuesday.

Ryan also said that Visa card spending linked to stablecoins in Q4 was four times higher than it was a year ago.

This is after Visa launched a pilot program in September to test cross-border payments using stablecoins, giving businesses a faster way to MOVE funds internationally without the usual banking delays.

Visa has been dabbling in the crypto space for a while, but this quarter’s update gave numbers.

According to Ryan, since 2020, Visa has handled over $140 billion in crypto and stablecoin flows. That includes $100 billion worth of crypto purchases using Visa credentials.

Ryan says Visa is now letting banks mint and burn stablecoins directly through Visa’s infrastructure. The payments giant allegedly has over 130 stablecoin-linked card issuing programs across more than 40 countries.

And while they’ve worked with crypto-native firms before, McInerney emphasized that the regulatory clarity in the U.S. around USD-pegged tokens is pushing Visa to move faster.

So what’s coming next? Depends who you ask. Right now, analysts expect $3.07 EPS on $10.59 billion revenue for the next quarter. For the full fiscal year, the estimate is $12.84 EPS and $44.18 billion in total revenue.

But the revisions trend ahead of this report was mixed, so there’s no clear signal yet on where forecasts are heading next.

Visa’s stock may react to all this… or it may not. As usual, what matters most for short-term movement is what management said on the earnings call, and how investors interpret that tone. And that is a question for the next quarter.

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